Beauty Products

Tennis champion Serena Williams is a pretty badass example of a successful woman. Throughout her long career, shes had major success on the court while also fighting for equal compensation and visibility off the court. She and her sister Venus led the charge for equal prize money for female tennis players, and now Serena is…

(CNN)One in 12 beauty and personal care products marketed to African-American women in the US contains highly hazardous ingredients, according to research released Tuesday by the Environmental Working Group.The organization analyzed more than 1,100 products marketed to black women -- people who identify as African-American as well as those from the Caribbean and other areas…

What to buy for the back-to-land, cooler-than-thou, anti-establishment hipster? Whether they’re a full-sleeve tattoo type with a love of the open road, a bearded Maine sailor, or an Earth Goddess biodynamic farmer, these gifts will do just fine. Everything is artisanal, organic, and heritage. Short of a guided Ayahuasca ceremony, we’ve collected all the dreamy…

LOS ANGELES A viral petition has put a YouTube star at the center of a debate around women's mental health and body image online. About 18,000 people signed a Change.org petition, which has since been taken down, called on YouTube to temporarily ban Eugenia Cooney from the platform. The petition claims that Cooney "has a…

Kit, the Expa-backed platform for product recommendation, has today announced the close of a $2.5 million from Social Capital, Precursor Ventures, April Underwood, Ellen Pao, Authentic Ventures, Black Angel Tech Fund, and Expa. Kit lets users choose and review products theyve used and owned to build kits. These kits normally focus on a certain theme…

2016 was a weird year for everyone. Rob Kardashian was with child, Britain said peace to Europe, and a gorilla got shot. But we're determined to kill it for the last few days we have left, and we're doing it the best way we know how: by finding ways to enable our shopping and spending…

These Adidas kicks are woven from Biosteel fiber, a material designed to replicate spider silk that was developed by a German biotech company. The material is lighter than other synthetic materials and is quite strong. Its also, perhaps most notably, 100 percent naturally biodegradable. Fittingly unveiled at the BIOFABRICATEconference held at Parsons School of Design…

500 Startups just wrapped up its 18th batch of company launches last month which means its already looking forward to the next one. This time around, in its 19th batch, the program (no longer called an accelerator, ironically) has 44 companies, ranging from business-to-business software to beauty products. Youll find everything from software for managing…